| commonplace | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude | a trite or obvious remark. |
| ~ comment, remark, input | a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information.; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" |
| ~ truism | an obvious truth. |
| adj. | 2. commonplace | completely ordinary and unremarkable.; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" |
| ~ ordinary | not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine" |
| adj. | 3. commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous | not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" |
| ~ unexciting | not exciting.; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life" |
| adj. | 4. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn | repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" |
| ~ unoriginal | not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual.; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern" |
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